Tuesday 2nd December 2025

Culture

Fashion around Oxford – Joe Osei

Joe Osei, budding stylist and general fashion icon, shares his style secrets and where he’s shopping right now. Cherwell’s current fashion inspiration is Joe Osei, a third-year PPE student at...

Brown boots, black boots, and the politics of autumn style

Autumn always brings a question of existential importance: brown boots or black boots? It’s...

“You’re going to make mistakes”: Katie Robinson on fashion and sustainability

Katie Robinson is a sustainable fashion journalist, content creator, and campaigner, with experience working...

Alternative Oxford: The changing stereotypes surrounding body modifications

Cienna Jennings visits Oxford’s renowned tattoo and piercings studio, Tigerlily, to speak with the...

Maids in Dagenham

Jenny Glennon talks women's rights and wrongs with Made in Dagenham's Rosamund Pike and Jaime Winstone

Two million feet and counting

The new Ashmolean is coming of age. Philippa Harris puts on her stethoscope for a healthcheck

In the Closet

Deeply superficial

Kate Nash, naffed off.

Georgia Lindsay talks to Kate Nash, a singer not afraid of a strong opinion and a swear word, or four.

Oxford ethics

Our gonzo philosopher answers the perpetual freshers' week question - To shark, or not to shark?

Intoxficated

Gin has the spirit this week

The beautiful game

Emily Hawes and Tom Wales follow the 'fall-safe pulling rules' of 'The Game', with some dubious successes.

Cherwell’s fresher glossary: part three

The unmissable final installment of Cherwell's guide to Oxford's need-to-know slang. Like the urban dictionary, but more useful.

Not your city

Reflections on a fruity summer cocktail of Starbucks, Subway journeys and strolls down Park Avenue

A passage through India

A look at travels through 'God's own country'

Review: Magnificent Maps at the Britsh Library

A diverse showcase of the British Library's map collection that illustrate their historical role as far more than just geographically intended.

Cherwell’s fresher glossary: part two

The unmissable second installment of Cherwell's guide to Oxford's need-to-know slang. Like the urban dictionary, but more useful.

In the Closet: A fresher introduction

Cherwell's most dapper dresser offers some fashion advice for Oxford's male freshers.

Cherwell’s fresher glossary: part one

A handy guide for the uninitiated - with some of the things we wish we'd known as fresh-faced Freshers.

All is not lost – A celebration of alternative music festivals

James Maloney explains why the the festival season is yet to begin for fans of 'alternative' music

Bali Babes ’10

An insight into a student experience in an infamous backpacking location.

Great exploitations: the internship debate

Are unpaid internships just free-labour opportunities?

Seventy-two hours in Syria

Politics, male culture and the World Cup

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